How frequently do they give out the Fields Medal Award?
Every 4 years
100
Who was the first woman to win a Fields Medal?
Bonus: What year did she win?
Maryam Mirzakhani
2014
100
In The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown, what sequence of numbers is the password to open the bank vault?
Fibonacci
100
In the movie Good Will Hunting, what job does Damon work before he is discovered by the MIT mathematicians?
Janitor
100
What mathematician is known as the father of algebra?
Diophantus
200
What is the age limit for the Fields Medal?
40 years old
200
In a recent article by The Atlantic, there were only three countries where women felt more comfortable in mathematics than men. Name one of those countries.
Jordan, Qatar, United Arab Emirates
200
This children’s fictional novel was written by a mathematician and translated into 176 different language. What is the novel called?
Alice in Wonderland
200
In the movie 21 senior math major Ben Campbell join the blackjack team in order to pay for medschool. How much money does he say he wants to make before he quits the game?
$300,000
200
What famous mathematician and physicist said this: "Do not worry too much about your difficulties in mathematics, I can assure you that mine are still greater"?
Albert Einstein
300
How much money do you get when you win the Fields Medal?
$1,500
300
What percentage of STEM-field PhD’s are awarded to women (within 3%)?
43% (40-46%)
43% (40-46%)
300
In the novel, The Phantom Tollbooth, what is the capital city that the Mathemagician king rules?
Digitopolis
300
In the movie A Beautiful Mind, what mathematics concept, based on conflict and cooperation between people, does John Nash (played by Russel Crow) receive the nobel prize in economics for?
Game theory
300
What is the fewest number of people you have to have in a room for the probability of two people having the same birthday be 50%?
23
400
Who was the youngest person to receive a fields medal?
Bonus: What was his age?
Terence Tao
31
400
This American woman became the first head of the math department at Bryn Mawr College.
Charlotte Angas Scott
400
What novel by Edwin A. Abbott uses a 2-dimensional world to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture?
Bonus: What pseudonym did Abbott go by?
Flatland
A Square
400
In the movie Harold and Kumar: Escape from Guantanamo Bay, what number is the subject of Kumar’s embarrassing poem?
square root of 3
400
Irish mathematician William Hamilton once discovered something while walking across a bridge in Ireland. He was so excited that he carved his discovery into the bridge. What had he discovered?
The Quaternions
500
What year was the first Fields Medal given out?
Bonus: Who was it given to?
1936
Lars Ahlfors
500
Albert Einstein called this woman, “the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.”
Emmy Noether
500
What is the name of the mostly french society of mathematicians and writers that are “seeking of new structures and patterns which may be used by writers in any way they enjoy”? (examples of the structures and patterns include N+7 and lipograms).
Oulipo
500
In the movie Mean Girls, Lindsay Lohan is selected to answer the tie breaking question at the high school math tournament. Her opponent incorrectly answers the question first, what was her answer?
The limit is -1.
500
What famous mathematician had such a disdain for Fava Beans that he forbid all his followers from eating them?
Bonus: What were his followers called?